Silent Retreat August 2015 Session1
I Have Cast My Line - Who Will Take the Bait?
How to Be a Better Person?
Be Empty
[Questioner] I just felt like empty of everything.
[Mooji] Yes.
[Q.] Empty, give it everything. And also in my daily life,
I just felt like talking with persons and people,
just be empty of all the concepts that you have about them.
Be empty of all the concepts that you have about you also.
And I could realize the power just to be empty,
even in very stressful situations, but I didn't do anything.
Who is the source of this presence?
And again, emptiness. Thank you very much.
[Mooji] Thank you very much. [laughter]
Because it is in this sharing
that one realizes that no strategy is needed, no preparation.
But somehow there's an unfolding trust in your heart
that you can be completely empty.
Contrary to our upbringing, which is to be full of lots of things
and lots of techniques and strategies and how to be a better person
and how to win friends and influence people...
And you found this beautiful thing:
total emptiness, in every situation. Let it simply arise.
And what you are going to say you don't know.
How are you going to behave? You don't know. You don't need to know.
What a weightlessness!
And why would you not want to know?
Because whatever you think you know, it won't show up in that moment.
If you insist on bringing an intention there
you will be out of synchronicity with the real Self.
You're already in the past.
You're already into a version of life.
And your Self is naturally this.
We study and learn so many things. Why?
Because actually we are afraid also.
Of course, some of it is curiosity and a natural urge to learn
and to study and to know and an enjoyment in this.
But also sometimes fear that the world is a threatening place.
No one told you that. It's inside your mind.
So to come with this...
Everything collapses in this great emptiness.
A word which is not popular in our culture,
carries so much derogatory meaning
and yet there's total space, total freedom, total joy.
Someone said, 'Thank you for allowing me to be nothing.'
Who knows that freedom?
You don't have to tell anybody about it,
because they will project what they want,
each according to their temperament.
But inside you're empty of all of this.
This is the one who is the most intuitive, most spontaneous,
most natural, most happy, most spacious.
And as long as you give so much importance to your mind,
it will not permit you to trust this.
You will always retain some kind of control or fear.
There is a place for control.
But not that dictated to by the mind.
It will automatically present itself if it is needed.
Even if you have to make plans,
sometimes it is practical to make a plan, ahead of time.
But the Self will guide it. It will know.
So you're not haemorrhaging energy
simply to follow the mind's projections, which are so wasteful actually.
The greatness of the Self is that it is so complete,
it is so perfect that even the apparent play of imperfection,
becomes part of the great perfection.
Even the apparent disharmony is swallowed in the great harmony.
That is the God Self.
But one who is free of personal motivation, except superficially,
or that which is the play of the Self
in its expression as the manifest life, this one is the most happy.
In all things, they flow as harmony.
These are the signs, in fact, that are coming for you more and more.
There's more trust, more openness, naturally also.
Naturally one feels more spaciousness,
when there's more space, there's more relaxation.
There's more relaxation: more trust.
When more trust: more love.
When there's more love: less competition.
Without competition: great joy.
With great joy: great peace.
Where there's peace, there's silence.
And the great understanding surpasses all beginnings and all endings.
Then the great fear of death and of life passes.
In quick succession.
One should show a tremendous gratitude for one's existence.
That all of this, we are able to experience
because consciousness in its human form is the most diverse,
in some way complex, but not necessarily complicated.
The capacity to demonstrate its awesomeness
is best observed in the human instrument.
You can be grateful for the senses, the functioning of perception,
the ability to discern, to reflect, to contemplate, to question,
to discern, to discriminate, to acknowledge, to refine,
to confirm, to love, all this.
The human form is a big ship to sail.
Let the captain be the Self, not the mind.
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The Self is so perfect that even in the apparent play of imperfection
it becomes part of the great perfection.
The human form is a big ship to sail,
let the Self be the captain, not the mind.
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